The SNP Government has ditched plans for a national care service despite spending nearly £30m on the doomed shake-up.

The Scottish government has scrapped its flagship plan to create a National Care Service. The reform, which had already been scaled back and delayed, was axed by Social Care Minister Maree Todd in a ...

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The Scottish Government has rolled back on plans for its National Care Service in the face of widespread opposition. The post-Covid initiative was announced by Nicola Sturgeon's administration as a ...

The Scottish Government has dropped proposals for a National Care Service. Social care minister Maree Todd told MSPs on Thursday the plan to create a central national care board in Scotland will no ...

THE Scottish Government has dropped plans for a National Care Service. In a statement at Holyrood, Social Care Minister Maree Todd admitted to the chamber the proposals do not have enough support to ...

Taxpayers have shelled out nearly £1bn on agency nurses and locum doctors to assist the crisis-hit NHS. The sums spent on ...

The Scottish Government’s flagship plans to set up a National Care Service has been scrapped - with watered down plans for an advisory board tabled in its place.

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Read about how much NHS Scotland health boards have spent on agency nurses in the last six years, and how nurse leaders have reacted.

More than £900 million has been spent on agency nurses and locum doctors in Scotland’s NHS since 2019. The SNP is now being ...

The Scottish Government said the spend was a ‘tiny fraction’ of the health service’s £10 billion staffing costs.